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While the Carefor Cornwall Hospice is gearing up for their annual fund raising telethon through which they hope to raise $80,000, there is another way that the community can help them double that amount. 

Cornwall Hospice, is a 10 bed residential facility that provides free end of life care for those who prefer not to stay in hospital or can no longer stay at home.

The services of the hospice have been used by many local residents, yet many are unaware of the facility and the service it offers.

Rhonda VanBeilen, a broker at Brister Insurance in Morrisburg had been unaware of the Cornwall Hospice until she learned about it from her brother David Lapier.

Once she learned about the facility she did something that could help Cornwall Hospice in a big way.

She nominated Cornwall Hospice for the national Aviva Community Fund contest which gives away $1 million to various organizations across the county.

For this nomination to become funds for Hospice, community support is needed.

VanBeilen explained that all you have to do is register at avivacommunityfund.org and then you are eligible to vote for this medium project once per day per email account. 

“You only have to register once, so it’s easy,” said VanBeilen.

The top 30 projects according to number of votes will move on to the contest semi finals. 

Last week the Carefor Hospice nomination was among the top 30, and VanBeilen hopes that they will be able to maintain that good standing to move on to the semifinals.

Carefor Cornwall Hospice is partially funded by the government, but $500,000 in fund raising over and above that funding is needed to keep it operational.

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A St. Lawrence College project is taking aim at helping a young local family.

A group of six second year Social Service Worker students from St. Lawrence College in Cornwall is currently working on a community development project which allows them to work within the community in order to work towards a cause of their choice.

Tessa Perry, who is from Morrisburg, made a suggestion that the rest of her project group immediately agreed to.

The project group includes; Tessa Perry from Morrisburg, Sarah Archambault from Long Sault, and Jade Mercier, Kari Brown, Cassandra Bowen, and Channelle Seguin from Cornwall. 

They are organizing and hosting a spaghetti dinner and silent auction to raise funds to help 19 year old Jessica Blok, and her family, husband Dustin and daughter Autumn. 

Jessica is fighting stage four Rhabdomyosarcoma cancer.

Since Jessica and Dustin married in hospital in 2014, the students have decided to raise funds for a honeymoon.

“We are looking to rent Jessica a cottage for a weekend this spring/summer 2015,” explained the students in the project proposal. 

“The money raised will be used for a weekend getaway, all expenses paid.”

“I have known Jessica throughout public and high school in Iroquois,” said Tessa. 

“My group of wonderful ladies were inspired when I told them about Jessica’s situation, as a suggestion for our project, which is meant to have the community work together.”

Although this is a school project, the group hopes their efforts will be met with much community support, to help do something special for the Bloks.

The fundraiser will take place April 11 at the Morrisburg Legion. (4:30-7 p.m.).

Anyone wanting to donate to the auction, can email getaticket@outlook.ca

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